Paul, Reishi & the Bees

 

It feels really nice to post again. I've been pretty busy learning sterile tissue culture, cloning wild mushrooms for a research project from time to time, and now I'm taking some beginner's classes on DNA extraction. It's been an amazing journey. It's also wonderful to find the energy and motivation to finally get back to doing some artwork :-) 

Since my ancient Wacom tablet is finally dead and only having a track pad on my laptop at the moment, I thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to just chill and do some pixel art: featuring Paul Stamets with Ganoderma lucidum (Reishi mushrooms) in various forms, the bees, and a dash of tribute to the Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP (a video game, lol).

Shout out to all wild and native bees, Paul, Steve Sheppard, and the FP and WSU research teams for their groundbreaking research to help save bees from Colony Collapse: 

Extracts of Polypore Mushroom Mycelia Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees

Panus conchatus...

commonly known as Lilac Oysterling. This mushroom is a wood loving saprophyte, but unlike its succulent (and super delish) relative Pleurotus ostreatus, Panus conchatus is much tougher in texture and isn't an edible mushroom...but remains a valuable asset to the environment, nonetheless. The colors aren’t this vivid in nature but I thought it would be fun to exaggerate them

Russula, Boletus, and Psilocybe

Heads up ;)

Wigging out

Fantasy Item Sprites

Lil' Beast

Some icon and logo work for another dear friend

Seal

One of my fav logos I created for a friend's project (ultimately didn't pan out but at least I got to keep this for myself lol).

Moon Flower Sketch

Color / Head Study

6X: "The Nightshade Council"

6X is a little series I've started in my spare time as I reflect on the interconnectedness of our environment, and our marriage with fungi.

Side note: an interesting study showing bats can tell two humans apart just from the subtle differences in breathing patterns. It's also pretty cool how the young bat fetus looks eerily human, until of course, the phalanges and metacarpals (finger bones) begin to elongate. They're important pollinators as well, with some plants being completely reliant upon them to spread their seed.

Bengal Trance : Revisited

The Interpreter(s)

Progresss...

This week I wanted to learn more about snakes - here's a little screenshot of what I've got so far:

Yes, this weekend I decided to make an avatar of a rodent. 

Oh I Found This New

Thing:
https://www.behance.net/violetvoid

Crane avatar

Fremont Art Walk!

Yay, a couple of my pieces are being shown in a group show at Tiny Ninja in Fremont, WA. Come check us out on Friday, June 6th for the art walk!